1913. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
326 
ANOTHER “ PERFECT [POTATO.” FROM PASTURE TO GARDEN. 
Some weeks ago we printed a pic¬ 
ture of a tuber which would rank as a 
well-nigh ideal eating potato. Now, on 
page 282 we picture another which also 
takes high rank. This potato is a Pride 
of Vermont grown by Geo. E. Burdett, 
of Windsor Co., Vt. Mr. Burdett won 
W. A. M., Brooklyn, N. Y. —Will you in¬ 
form me how to convert an acre of land, 
which has been used for years as grazing 
land for cows, into land for intensive cul¬ 
tivation for truck and small fruits and ber¬ 
ries? The land is clay and shale subsoil. 
I hope In the course of a year or two to 
take farming up as a living, and to use one 
acre for poultry and one acre for intensive 
farming. The farm is in Northern New 
Jersey. 
second prize in the Bowker perfect po¬ 
tato contest. His yield was 527.2 bush¬ 
els on a measured acre. Of this yield 
11.6 per cent, ranked as “small” tubers, 
or under four ounces in weight, while 
14.9 per cent, were “large,” or over 12 
ounces. This left 73.5 per cent, between 
four and 12 ounces, or the best cooking 
size. These potatoes gave an average 
analysis of 16.65 per cent, of starch, and, 
as might be expected, cooked out dry 
and mealy. We asked Mr. Burdett what 
changes h£ would make in culture if 
he were to try for another prize, and if 
he thinks these medium-sized, high- 
quality potatoes pay better than the 
larger ones. This is his reply: 
“I think if I were to contest again I 
should use a little more fertilizer and 
plant the seed a little closer in the row. 
This, I think, would increase the yield 
and the potatoes would not be so large. 
I should also try to keep them sprayed 
a little more thoroughly. I think the 
best way to produce medium-sized, high- 
quality potatoes is to select the seed 
from hills having a good number of 
smooth, medium-sized potatoes, cut them 
in three to five pieces, so that each piece 
Ans. —Such land is usually sour, full 
of tough roots and weed seeds, and 
usually thick with white grubs and other 
insects. Soil for intensive farming or 
gardening must be the reverse of this, 
sweet, full of decayed vegetable matter, 
open and porus, and as free as possible 
from insects. Plow this old pasture in 
the Fall and leave the furrows rough 
through the Winter. On most soils we 
would advise a cover crop of some 
sort, but a rough pasture will be helped 
by the action of frost. In the Spring 
put on at least one ton of burned lime 
to the acre and thoroughly harrow it 
in. This lime will sweeten the soil and 
help decay the old roots and trash. 
Mark the acre each way and plant corn. 
Give it thorough culture, keeping the 
weeds killed as they start, and when 
working the soil for the last time sow 
rye and crimson clover together among 
the corn hills and cover the seed. The 
thorough culture through the Summer 
will destroy many of the white grubs. 
The following Spring plow the rye and 
clover under and plant potatoes in hills, 
giving the most thorough culture as be¬ 
fore. After the potatoes are dug sow 
rye. The next year with this rye plowed 
under and a good crop of manure you 
may have this soil ready to start “in¬ 
tensive culture.” You must sweeten the 
soil and kill out the foul growth in the 
pasture 
will contain two to four good eyes, drop 
them about a foot apart and cover them 
quite deep. I believe that such a crop 
will pay the average grower because he 
can find a market more readily and us x 
ally get a little better price, near home 
at least, and by seeding more heavily 
and using more fertilizer I think the 
yield is better, as well as the potatoes 
more uniform in size.” 
Strawberries on “Grubby” Soil. 
■/. II. P., Webster, N. Y.—I have about 
3% acres of sandy soil on which. 1 used 
the m«nure from It head of cattle and four 
horses last Spring, and planted to pota¬ 
toes. There were from three to 10 white 
grubs in every hill of potatoes. This Win¬ 
ter I am manuring the poorest of it with 
hog and horse manure-; in the Spring I 
iutend to plant it to strawberries. How 
much salt can I use per acre to overcome 
grubs without injuring plants, and how 
much phosphate per acre and kind? Would 
you advise ready-mixed, potash eight to 
nine available phosphoric acid eight to 
12? Or would nitrate of soda and plaster 
or plaster mixed with the phosphate be 
best? 
Ans. —We would not advise you to 
plant strawberries in this field this year. 
There are too many white grubs, and 
they will surely injure if not ruin the 
crop. We do not believe that the salt 
will clean them out. A drove of hungry 
hogs would get them, and clean culture 
will help, but we should expect to invite 
disaster by setting plants now. Better 
plant early corn and give the most 
thorough culture. Then plant in early 
Fall or wait until next year. With the 
manure that you will use the mixture 
of phosphate and potash ought to 
answer, but 100 pounds nitrate of soda 
per acre in addition would help. 
Corn in the Henyard. 
Would you tell me whether I need any 
chemicals on 3 Vi acres of land that I 
wish to grow corn on every year? It is 
used as a henyard. This laud gets all the 
dressing from <>00 laying hens and about 
000 chickens and one horse. I want to 
put rye In the corn as a cover crop. I 
And that the only crop I can grow and 
let the hens and chickens run the greater 
part of the year. What I want to do is 
to keep this land in a good state of culti¬ 
vation for corn. About one-half of the 
stalks go back on the land in the form of 
litter for hens. I grew about 400 bushels 
of ear corn last year, which was a great 
help toward feeding the hens. Does the 
corn take out more than I am putting on. 
and if so, what kind of chemicals to use 
for best results for corn? G. s. 
Whiteman, Mass. 
This is a good plan—to grow corn in 
the hen yard and sow rye at the last 
working. If you keep the hens out until 
the corn is too large for them to scratch 
up and then let them in they wll have 
shade and they will help the crop. The 
manure alone will finally give too much 
stalk and soft grain, as it provides an 
excess of nitrogen. Use a mixture of 
three parts fine ground bone and one 
part muriate of potash in addition to 
the manure. Half a ton or 1,200 pounds 
of this mixture on the field will give 
you better grain. It will pay. 
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